Very-late proarrhythmia of a migrant pacemaker lead

J Electrocardiol. 2011 Mar-Apr;44(2):232-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2010.08.002.

Abstract

The report is on a 49-year-old patient who experienced life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias caused by a pacemaker lead that was abandoned 26 years ago, migrated with its proximal ending to the main pulmonary artery and remained there asymptomatically for at least 3 years.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Electrodes, Implanted / adverse effects*
  • Equipment Failure
  • Foreign-Body Migration / diagnosis
  • Foreign-Body Migration / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pacemaker, Artificial / adverse effects*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / diagnosis*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / etiology*